From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:59:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: ensure we traverse commits in topological order
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902111158500.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460902110248m8055b3amdebcfc550438cff2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, newren@gmail.com wrote:
> > fast-export will only list as parents those commits which have already
> > been traversed (making it appear as if merges have been squashed if not
> > all parents have been traversed).  To avoid this silent squashing of
> > merge commits, we request commits in topological order.
> 
> Any comparative timings? We don't need to rename this to 'git
> reasonably-speedy-export'? 8-)

What we _could_ do is add proper error handling: fast-export should 
recognize that it did not see the commit yet, and error out suggesting 
using --topo-order with fast-export.

Ciao,
Dscho